Example sentences of "n't want [to-vb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And although it 's not strictly my business , and I do n't want to pry into things that are n't my concern , I do need to know why you told everyone that Gramps was Phena 's father — No … ’ |
| 2 | On the one hand we do n't want to say to Iraq you ca n't defend yourself against Iran , but on the other we do n't trust the Iraqis not to turn those aircraft on us . ’ |
| 3 | What I really wanted to say I did n't want to put in writing . |
| 4 | ‘ I would n't want to go through life as a miracle-worker . ’ |
| 5 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 6 | I did n't want to go to bed , because I did n't want to miss anything . |
| 7 | ‘ You do n't want to go to bed with me ? ’ |
| 8 | But I do n't want to go to bed with you . |
| 9 | I do n't want to go to bed with you , I 'm speaking about the situation . |
| 10 | I do n't want to go to bed . |
| 11 | The trouble is , when I do n't want to go to bed with her ( and it does happen ) , I do n't want to go to bed with her . |
| 12 | The trouble is , when I do n't want to go to bed with her ( and it does happen ) , I do n't want to go to bed with her . |
| 13 | Do n't want to go to bed ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I knew two sorts of women , ’ he said thickly , not looking at her , ‘ the women I loved but did n't want to go to bed with . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're not in love with him and you do n't want to go to bed with him , but you do love him . |
| 16 | you do n't want to go to bed with knots in your hair |
| 17 | The taxi driver speaks no English and I spend a fraught moment or two wondering whether he has understood that I do n't want to go to Keflavik , but after the shorter tour of Reykjavik we arrive . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't want to go to Tibet , ’ John says . |
| 19 | She did n't want to go to New Zealand . |
| 20 | But if she does n't want to go to university … ’ |
| 21 | They do n't want to go to South East England . |
| 22 | She did n't want to go to London . |
| 23 | well I do n't want to go to London particularly |
| 24 | It started on April 19th , a Sunday ; and the next day I did n't want to go to school . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't want to go to school , Mammy . |
| 26 | ‘ Mum , I really do n't want to go to school today , ’ he wailed . |
| 27 | And knitting needles that to my little fingers were like rolling pins you know and they were long and they got under my arms and I always used to have a tummy ache on knitting day cos I did n't want to go to school . |
| 28 | Sometimes she does n't want to go to school at all . ’ |
| 29 | Alice said , ‘ I do n't want to go to school today . |
| 30 | I 'll tell you something I do n't want to go to school . |